Salem Witchcraft Hysteria - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/salem/
This National Geographic online interactive presentation immerses the participant in the drama of 1692 Salem, Massachusetts through the use of a window that is spawned when you click on the site logo. Students can follow through the chronological events of that summer or use the drop-down jump menu to focus in on specific incidents that are of interest to them. What makes the site so compelling is the way it hooks you into the unfolding events of the time. You be the Historian http://americanhistory.si.edu/kids/springer/ This long-running simulation is presented by the Smithsonian's Museum of American History to help students learn while practicing the process of historiography. Acting as historical detectives, students try to explain events in the life of the Springer family in the late 1700s in Delaware. There are ways to self-check their work and to ultimately come to an understanding of how historians learn about history - top notch processes here!
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Sermons on Sin, Profaning the Lord's Day and Swearing
Wikipedia article about Pilgrims. Notice the references at the bottom of the article, do these
references give the article “authority?” Do you trust the information?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritan
Analysis of Hester Prynne from NPR (National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87805369
Smithonian images http://ushistoryimages.com/index.shtml
Mayflower Compact
Primary Sources
Pictures of houses
http://architecture.about.com/od/housestyles/ig/Colonial-and-Federal/New-England-Colonial.htm
http://architecture.about.com/od/housestyles/ig/Colonial-and-Federal/Cape-Cod-Style.htm
Pictures
NYPL pictures · Puritans
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?keyword=puritans+&x=9&y=5
· Pilgrims in America
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?keyword=pilgrims+and+America&x=11&y=7
Rare Maps from U of Georgia
http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/colamer.html
Religion and the founding of America
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01-2.html
The "business" of the first settlers, a Puritan minister recalled in 1681, "was not Toleration, but [they] were professed enemies of it." Puritans expelled dissenters from their colonies..."– what does this tell you about the Puritans?
Salem Witchcraft Hysteria - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/salem/
This National Geographic online interactive presentation immerses the participant in the drama of 1692 Salem, Massachusetts through the use of a window that is spawned when you click on the site logo. Students can follow through the chronological events of that summer or use the drop-down jump menu to focus in on specific incidents that are of interest to them. What makes the site so compelling is the way it hooks you into the unfolding events of the time.
You be the Historian http://americanhistory.si.edu/kids/springer/
This long-running simulation is presented by the Smithsonian's Museum of American History to help students learn while practicing the process of historiography. Acting as historical detectives, students try to explain events in the life of the Springer family in the late 1700s in Delaware. There are ways to self-check their work and to ultimately come to an understanding of how historians learn about history - top notch processes here!